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Rationale

The tag highway=traffic_island can be helpful to map the real number of sections of a pedestrian or bicycle crossing, whereas the crossing nodes show the passage more complicated than it is.

Up to now it is possible to tag a traffic island as a puzzle of landuse=grass and highway=footway areas, but many traffic islands also comprise paved areas that are not traffic space, and waiting positions for cyclists on a traffic island are neighter a footway, nor a bikebox that could be tagged as highway=asl.

Traffic island at a Junction. Without tactile paving, but has a lowered kerb.

The cycle crossing traverses two carriageways and a rail junction with four tram tracks in one passage. The foot crossing on the right is divided into three sections by two traffic islands, each between a carriageway and the tram tracks.

Where the crossings are for foot and bike together without segregation, it seems better to tag the drawn lines highway=crossing + access tags.